ARTIST BIOGRAPHY ELISE MORIN BORN IN PARIS, FRANCE 1978 LIVES AND WORKS IN PARIS, FRANCE

Elise Morin’s artistic practice draws on a variety of media, from video art to large- scale installations. Much of her work offers a reassessment of landscape as a genre in contemporary art, while exploring the economical displacement of objects and environmental issues. Morin often borrows details from the natural environment, focusing on the ‘life cycle’ of an artwork and how its making and composition can place a material burden on the ecosystem. Morin’s art has an af liation with minimalism through its accumulation of recycled materials and repetition. For the Paris iteration of ‘Art in Resonance’, she will create a dune structure that consists of a steel frame covered in a ‘skin’ made from pulverized CDs that are sourced locally.

Morin has exhibited at the Jeu de Paume and the Centquatre in Paris, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, The Hague’s city hall and Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. She studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Central Saint Martins College in London, as well as the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts.

(Photo credit: Martin Martiq) ARTIST BIOGRAPHY SAYA WOOLFALK BORN IN GIFU, JAPAN 1979 LIVES AND WORKS IN ,

Saya Woolfalk looks to science ction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. As the daughter of a Japanese mother and African-American father, Woolfalk’s work investigates an expanded de nition of cultural diversity and notions of hybridity in relationship to utopian possibilities. Her ‘Art in Resonance’ installation at The Peninsula Paris – a new immersive projection – is inspired by the stained glass of cathedrals in Paris and features hieroglyphics that imagine a post-racial utopia.

Woolfalk’s works feature in the collections of major institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Seattle Art Museum where her major multi-media installation, commissioned and acquired by the Museum, is on extended view. Woolfalk studied at in Providence, Rhode Island and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

(Photo credit: SeoHyun Sarah Bae) ARTIST BIOGRAPHY IVÁN NAVARRO BORN IN SANTIAGO, CHILE 1972 LIVES AND WORKS IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Iván Navarro was born into a family of artists. Best known for his sculptures of neon, uorescent and incandescent light, Navarro’s works activate both the sensorial and psychological experience in his viewer. Navarro moved to New York in 1997, at which point he began to actively engage with the principles of Minimalism in order to trace a connection between modernism and forms of control. Navarro’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at prominent institutions and galleries internationally, including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; among others. In 2009, he represented Chile in the 53rd Venice Biennale.

(Photo credit: Weston Wells)